Hipstamatic’s digital “disposable” camera

San Francisco’s Synthetic Corp., maker of the popular iPhone photo app Hipstamatic, is taking a decidedly analog take on its latest product.

The company unveiled its new, free Hipstamatic D-Series app that creates a digital version of the old disposable camera.

Synthetic CEO Lucas Allen Buick

In the old analog film days, a disposable camera with 24 exposures would be placed at each dinner table of a wedding reception. Guests would take the camera and snap pics until the film ran out. Then at the end of the event, someone would collect the cameras and have the photos developed. Presto — you have a set of wedding memories captured in snapshots.

The D-Series applies that example digitally. An iPhone user downloads the D-Series app, then uses their iPhone as a “disposable” camera. That person then invites other iPhone users to snap pics on that camera’s “roll” of 24 exposures. Once the last photo is taken, pics from that event — a wedding, a concert, a digital photography conference, whatever — can be seen by the camera’s users, shared on Facebook and Twitter and even printed out. It’s social photo sharing for specific events.

“We believe that 2012 will be the year that Hipstamatic’s D-Series changes how we come together to capture photographic stories,” Synthetic CEO Lucas Allen Buick said in a statement.

Like its regular Hipstamatic app, this free download features different cameras that transform regular camera pics into artsy pieces of photo art. There are four themed cameras available with the D-Series: Foxy X69, Dreamy, and BlacKeys 44, all 99 cents extra. Another camera called MegaZuck 84 is free if the user connects via Facebook.